Glenn Beck calls Bruce Springsteen's Born in the U.S.A. 'anti-American' on radio show

Saed Hindash/The Star-LedgerBruce Springsteen performs with Joe Grushecky and the Houserockers during the Light of Day 10 benefit concert for Parkinson's Disease in January at the Paramount Theatre in Asbury Park.
FOX News pundit Glenn Beck said on his radio show Thursday that Bruce Springsteen's hit song "Born in the U.S.A." is "anti-American," according to a report on MediaMatters.com.

The conservative TV host said that many people are filled with patriotic pride when they hear the song on Fourth of July and then "find out that Bruce Springsteen's Born in the U.S.A. is anti-American." Beck then grimly read the lyrics for the song — which chronicles a working class man sent to Vietnam, has a friend who dies in the war, then comes home and struggles to find work — and suggests the song is propaganda, the report said.

"That's what America's about, according to Bruce Springsteen," Beck said on the program. "It is time to wake up out of our dream state, wake up out of the propaganda. You know, this is the thing that people who come from the Soviet-bloc or Cuba, they're all saying, 'How do you guys not hear this? How do you not see this?' Well, that's 'cause we don't ever expect it."

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